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Credit: Stewart Macdonald Australian tiger snakes have "hit the jackpot" because prey cannot evolve resistance to their venom. While that may sound foreboding, University of...

Credit: Mukherjee et al., 2017. Whether growing in a puddle of dirty water or inside the human body, large groups of bacteria must coordinate their...

Fewer trips to the dentist may be in your future, and you have mussels to thank. Inspired by the mechanisms mussels use to adhere to...

UVALDE - Looking at leaves to peer into the future might seem the stuff of superstition, but is actually the essence of research conducted by...

Two Johns Hopkins materials science graduate students and their professors played a key role in a multi-institution research project that pinpointed how a tiny protein...

Alexandria, Va., USA - For the first time, researchers are using proteomics to examine proteins and peptides in saliva in order to accurately detect exposure...

Doctors are often deluged by signals from charts, test results, and other metrics to keep track of. It can be difficult to integrate and monitor...

Credit: University of Pennsylvania A plant has one genome, a specific sequence of millions of basepairs of nucleotides. Yet how this genome is expressed can...

Credit: Stephanie Henry URBANA, Ill. - Gut microbes have been in the news a lot lately. Recent studies show they can influence human health, behavior,...

Credit: Photo by Jules Bernstein LIVERMORE, Calif.--You might not cook with this sugar, but from a biofuels standpoint, it's pretty sweet. A Bay Area company...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In new results reported in The Plant Cell, molecular biologist Elizabeth Vierling at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - August 21, 2017 - Not much is known about stem cell metabolism, but a new study from the Children's Medical...

Credit: UNSW Sydney UNSW Sydney scientists studying microbes from some of the saltiest lakes in Antarctica have discovered a new way that the microbes can...

Credit: Huang Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - The brain's astonishing anatomical complexity has been appreciated for over 100 years, when pioneers first trained...

CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Our bodies are lined on the inside with soft, microscopic carpets of hair, from the grassy extensions on our tastebuds, to fuzzy...